The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23

JHey CduuOu Well dIOru 10 lose,
THE mugwumps are much disguised
because Ohio didn't b" snub }" Governor
Foraker, but reelected him by an in
creased majority. The mugwumps are
displeased with any public man who
gives offence to the southern bourbons
by telling the truth about them.
THE republican management will be
wise in the presidential campaign next
year if it does not concentrate all its
strength in New York, but gives proper
attention to New Jersey, Indiana and
Connecticut, and contests vigorously
two or three debatable states in the
| South. -Jouwndl.
IT was shown at Portland that very
large proportion of the thousands of
colored teachers employed in the South
ern States were prepared for their
work in the institutions supported by
northern philanthropy, and very largely
in the schools of the American Mis-
sionary Association.
Mr.. CLEVELAND contributed 81 900
to the democratic campaign fund in
New York state. Mr.. Cleveland con-
tributed $50 to the Charleston earth
quake sufferers. Mr.. Cleveland con-
tributed so to the Grant monument
fund. Readers can apply the moral
/ tbon,eo1,,oo Tlo1oJn D1oIo
THE state (New York; was lost to us
by narrow plurality by the combined
and desperate efforts of the prohibition
party and the saloon interest. The re-
publican ticket was defeated because
of the party's temperance record last
winter Let the friends of temperance
think of this.-A lbany Journal.
THE greatest of all human folies is
looking to the state in any form to
take care of the people. Socialism,
aside from the blood-thirsty brutalities
that it forces upon the attention of the
republicans and democrats of this
country, is profound mistake. The
true unit of society is the family. Gin
cinndh Gazette.
ROBERT 7. LINCOLN, talking with a
friend here about the defeat of Colonel
Frederick Grant, said, laughingly, but
earnestly, and as if even triie re-
lieved by the idea "That effectually
disposes of the proposed ticket of Lin
coin and Grant. The heredity platform
is not strong enough for a party to
stand on. "-7rib,me.
CONGRESSMAN HERBERT of Ala
bama says that 70, 900 more oflice-hold-
ers would be the first result of the es-
Enlistment of a postal telegraph, and
10000 more in addition to these the
second result Therefore he is against
it. But only think of the comfort to
100000 more of the democratic breth-
ren.-Mau and Cypress.
Now that it is morally certain that
ex-senator Jones of Florida is, and for
a year or two has been, really insane,
we want to take back all the gibes and
hippant things we ever said about him.
1t isn't pleasant to have to plead guilty
of having made fun of an insane man,
even in an entirely innocent and good
natured way, but it is Drawer than to
keep silent in the consciousness of
guilt.-Phladelphia Press.
THE people of India are growing
restless under the imperial rule of En-
gland, and recent native writer calls
attention to the condition of the coun-
try. He points out that such foreign
capital as circulates in British India
carries away its own profits out of
British India, and the latter is pre-
vented from acquiring any capital of
its own. What are the effects of this
policy upon the condition of the peo-
Pile? The masses are left as poor as
ever. Forty millions of the people go
through life on insufficient food.
THE proposal to return cholera-laden
ships arriving in this country to the
ports from which they came, which has
been considered by the quarantine au-
thorites and the secretary of the
treasury, looks very much like the worst
sort of inhumanity. To confine a ship
load of human beings for another ten
days in the hold of cholera-infected
ship is unpleasant to think of. The
proper thing to do would be to close
our ports against vessels from cholera
infected ports and thus prevent people
leaving them for this country.-H0rt-
ford Post.
THERE is undoubtedly an unusual
amount of distress this season among
the poor of the English metropolis. A
recent report shows that the poor
guardians of London have 81 900 pau
pers on the parish rolls, compared with
II 900 for the corresponding month
last year. The reported statement of
the secretary of the London Organized
Charity Association, to the effect that
there are a million persons in the
metropolis whose condition is one of
acute suffering and Distress" must
surely be an eXaggeration. The poor
guardians statistics are trustworthy and
they are alarming enough.
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